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A data breach in the Small Business Association‘s online application portal may have compromised personal information for nearly 8,000 businesses seeking emergency loans last month, the agency said today. In a letter to affected business owners, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO, SBA said it discovered March 25 that the application system for Economic Injury Disaster Loans may have disclosed personal information to other applicants of the program — including Social Security numbers,...

As the number of cyber criminals targeting remote workers grows, the National Cyber Security Centre has kicked off a new effort to encouraging people to report suspicious emails in an attempt to crack down on fraudsters and phishing scams. The coronavirus pandemic has led to record numbers of organisations requiring people to work from home – and in many cases, those employees haven't had any previous experience of working remotely and could be unaware of...

Over the course of the last month, Nintendo users have been increasingly reporting that their accounts have been getting hacked and accessed from remote locations around the globe, with some users losing money as a result of the unauthorized intrusion. The account hijackings appear to have started mid-March and have reached a peak over the weekend when more and more users started receiving email alerts that unknown IP addresses have been seen accessing their Nintendo...

One of China's largest state-sponsored hacking groups has attempted to breach the internal network of Gravity, the South Korean gaming company behind popular Ragnarok Online MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). The intrusion attempts are believed to have taken place earlier this year, although it is unclear if they were successful or not. The attempted attacks came to light today after cyber-security firm QuoIntelligence (QuoINT) published a report on new malware strains it discovered, which...

Just a few days after exposing the sale of some 500,000 Zoom accounts for sale on the dark web, the research team at Cyble are back with another worrying tale of the vast array of information traded on furtive data markets. A “threat actor,” the team reported in a blog, “has dropped an online bomb by dropping the identities of 267 Million Facebook users.” And the price for this data trove—just $540. Thankfully no passwords...

A team of academics says they've discovered a new security bug that impacts Xilinx FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) chipsets. Named Starbleed, the bug allows attackers -- with both physical or remote access -- to extract and tamper with an FGPA's bitstream (configuration file) to reprogram the chip with malicious code. Source: ZD Net

In the span of a couple months, the world as we knew it was turned upside-down. As scientists across the globe conduct experiments in search of the COVID-19 vaccine, the labour market has found itself within its own experiment. That is, the experiment of remote working on a massive scale.   In an effort to slow down the spread of the virus, millions of employees around the world are being told to write their emails, compile their spreadsheets, and hold their meetings from the confines of their dining room...

A hacker has leaked today the usernames and passwords of nearly 23 million players of Webkinz World, an online children's game managed by Canadian toy company Ganz. The Webkinz game launched in 2005 as the online counterpart of a line of Ganz plush toys. Users could enter a code from their plush toy on the Webkinz website where they could play and manage a version of their toy in the form of a virtual pet....

“A security incident involving our internal systems, and causing service disruptions for some of our clients, is the result of a Maze ransomware attack” Another IT services heavyweight has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, with the US’s Cognizant — a $16.8 billion by 2019 revenue stalwart of the Fortune 500 — admitting over the weekend that a “Maze ransomware attack” had hit internal systems and was causing service disruption for clients. Source: CBR

The federal government is hoping to make tech giants such as Facebook and Google pay for Australian content if it is a source of profit. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has been directed to develop a mandatory code of conduct to address bargaining power imbalances between digital platforms and media companies. The move forms part of the government's response to the ACCC's Digital Platforms Inquiry, which in July made a total of 23...